Bunch
Definitions
- A surname.
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Cherokee Rabbit Bunch.
- The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An informal body of friends.
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A considerable amount. US, informal
- An unmentioned amount; a number.
- A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.
Equivalents
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Examples
“a bunch of grapes”
“a bunch of bananas”
“a bunch of keys”
“a bunch of yobs on a street corner”
“When we had examined this last⟳ find⟳, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set⟳ out to destroy⟳ the boxes in these places.”
“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort⟳ of path that, I cal'lated, might lead⟳ to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend⟳ around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like⟳ a lawn.”
“Why do we sometimes find⟳ three buses on the same route arriving together at a bus stop⟳? What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route. The 600-yard interval between the second and third bus is decreased by every second's delay⟳ to the leaders, and before long the third bus has caught up. That is why buses sometimes arrive⟳ at the bus stop⟳ in bunches.”
“He still hangs out with the same bunch.”
““I don't mean⟳ all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"”
“a bunch of trouble⟳”
“A bunch of them went down to the field.”
“The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches”
“Two to four filler leaves are laid end⟳ to end⟳ and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.”
“They will carry⟳[…]their treasures upon the bunches of camels.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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